Comment 2 for bug 655128

Hi Rhonda. Your popularity calculator is pretty nifty, but not being a CJKV reader, I'm not sure that we would use it for expanding the font.

For example, the 2136 jōyō kanji would apparently be enough to typeset a Japanese schoolbook or government document. That set includes some characters that are very uncommon. But presumably Japanese readers, designers etc would much more easily understand "this font covers all the jōyō kanji" than "this font covers the 2500 most common kanji". Similarly for the List of Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (3500 of them) or the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters (8105 of them). If we were going to cover those languages at all, I'm guessing we'd start with defined subsets like those, rather than trying to measure popularity.